<div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2010" title="United States House of Representatives elections, 2010">United States House of Representatives elections, 2010</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2010" title="United States Senate elections, 2010">United States Senate elections, 2010</a></div>
<p>Obama called the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2010" title="United States House of Representatives elections, 2010">November 2, 2010 election</a>, where the Democratic Party lost 63 seats in, and control of, the House of Representatives,<sup id="cite_ref-237" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-237"><span>[</span>237<span>]</span></a></sup> "humbling" and a "shellacking".<sup id="cite_ref-238" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-238"><span>[</span>238<span>]</span></a></sup> He said that the results came because not enough Americans had felt the effects of the economic recovery.<sup id="cite_ref-239" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-239"><span>[</span>239<span>]</span></a></sup></p>